Posted on 04/22/2009 5:17:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
When President Obama announced his new budget a few weeks ago involving record spending, tax increases, deficits and debt, he did so with soaring rhetoric about spending cuts (non-existent), tax cuts for 95% of workers (misleading), and cutting the deficit in half in 5 years (good luck). This misdirection rhetoric is now a common Obama pattern.
For example, when the Administration leaked out word over the weekend of a plan to convert TARP loans into common stock in the banks, it did so with rhetoric that this was a way to rescue banks without asking for any more taxpayer bailouts. That drew attention away from the fact that this was an effective nationalization, with new outright government ownership in banks.
Obama started his Administration repeating the mantra that he only cares about what works, not about ideology. That was meant to draw attention away from the fact that Obama is all about extremist ideology, not pragmatism. That is why he is so intent on sharply raising tax rates on savings and capital and top income earners. Nothing practical about that in promoting the economy. Just the opposite. Obama's proposed severe global warming regulation serves extremist environmental ideology, not practical economics. Misdirection rhetoric is another trick Obama learned from Saul Alinsky.
So when the Senate recently voted 87-11 in favor of an amendment prohibiting reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, with obvious White House approval resulting in the support of all those Senate Democrats, I immediately started looking for the other shoe to drop. What is the real plan to shut down conservative talk radio and Christian broadcasts? Where is Obama hiding the peanut this time?
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At some point he will reach too far and the people will stand up.
Ain’t no big whoop; they can’t force me to listen. I already don’t watch t.v. except briefly in the morning to catch weather, traffic and the leg show on Fox. So what’ll happen? Radio will go the way of the newspapers.
Speaking of Fox; anyonelse noticing increasing frequency of “outages” of Fox on cable?
He already has and the people have sat back and done nothing. First there was his illegal aunt even back when he was a Senator, then it was the birth certificate, then there was ACORN and his ME $$$$ to steal the election, then there was the bad mouthing of America overseas and bowing down to our enemies, then billions upon billions of $$$$ our grandkids wouldn't be able to pay off, then it was the banks, and the auto industry, and then the census, and then...
Not as long as folks can afford beer, pretzels, and cable.
It’s called shortwave radio. I have one, maybe we should all have one. Now I just need an attic to hide it in.
Yes, I have noticed it. I have COMCAST cable, but it hasn’t been limited to FOX, though. Does make one go, “hmmmmm,” doesn’t it?
Outages have been going on for years. In our area, I’ve noticed that local commercials trump the ones the channels have on. Time Warner isn’t even smooth about doing it because you’ll see the first part of the network ad start (about 2 seconds or less) and then you get the car dealership ad instead. This activity picks up at election time. I complained to the RNC about their ads getting trampled on in the last election.
It also does AM/FM very well too.
He will only seize the TALK RADIO stationn! LOL.
All this would be worrisome if it were not for advancing technology, and changes in broadcasting itself.
AM radio is propped up only by talk radio, for the most part, and if it were not for talk radio (conservative talk radio), AM radio in the US would be going the direction of AM radio in Canada, where huge 50kw powerhouses are now owned by “radio clubs”.
The future of radio is not on your radio. The means of delivery of content will be irrelevant (IPOD, MP3, cell phone).
The only control the government has on radio/TV is on those facilities that are granted by the FCC, and therefore must play by the rules.
The Fairness Doctrine would only accelerate the process.
I’ve considered short wave; but what’s to listen to? BBC Commie World News Network?
Not if Rush, Savage, Hannity and others have anything to say about it.
It does make one go Hmmmmmm. And I’ve noticed it’s becoming ever more frequent and pro-longed. And I’m not alone; my mother-in-law in NOLA has called frantically on several occasions wondering what’s going on so it’s happening there too.
ha, ha, I somehow doubt that; most are too obese to get off the sofa or out from behind the table at Golden Corral.
Don’t know. The water’s getting pretty warm and the frog is only just twitching a little bit.
And what makes you think the FCC doesn’t have the Internet in its sights?
They may have them in their sights, but not so far.
But the internet isn’t the only means of disseminating program content.
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